Drama with Creative Writing BA(Hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Huddersfield
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Huddersfield
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Duration
3 Years
You have a love of the stage and performing arts, and you also want to explore your own writing. Whether you’re working on a drama or film script, or you’d like to write fiction, non-fiction or poetry, this course combines creative writing with drama to enable you to indulge both interests and develop your writing skills and techniques along the way. You’ll be encouraged to develop your writing across a whole range of creative media, including theatre, film, television and radio as well as fiction and poetry.
In your creative writing modules, you’ll be working with tutors who are all published and performed writers. They’ll encourage you to get writing and give you useful feedback to help you progress. You’ll have the chance to understand what makes great writing, which could be invaluable in your own work, and help you find a career in a number of professions too.
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About this course
QS World University Subject Rankings 2019 ranked the University of Huddersfield 25th in the world for 'Performing Arts'.
Drama is ranked 2nd and English is ranked 3rd in the country for student satisfaction (NSS 2018).
State-of-the-art facilities including three adaptable studios with sprung floors and state of the art multimedia projection equipment.
Dedicated rehearsal rooms.
Teaching by industry professionals and guest appearances from the likes of Professor Sir Patrick Stewart, Natalie Gavin, John Britton, Nicolás Núñez, Chloe Beale, Nicci Topping, Anna Helena McLean, and David Crowley.
Production based programme along with visits from practitioners and residencies from internationally known companies like Slung Low, IOU Productions and Northern Broadsides.
Our team of English academic staff are ranked in the top 5 in the UK for the quality of their research publications (REF 2014).
Drama graduates have gone on to work in the performing arts, award-winning films, in television, touring theatre, and running their own performance companies. English Literature graduates have gone on to work in teaching , PR, social media, script writing and law. Some students have chosen postgraduate study or additional vocational training in specialist areas, whilst a significant number successfully gain teaching qualifications and enter the teaching profession.
A selection of companies that have employed Huddersfield graduates in recent years include BBC One, ITV, Channel 4, Lawrence Batley Theatre, BBC 6 Music, Royal National Theatre and Point Blanc Theatre Company.
A Level - BBB
BTEC - DDM
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Subjects
- Creative Writing
- Drama
- Theatre
- Project
- Writing
- Poetry
- Performance Making
- Creative Devising
- Professional
- Management
Course programme
Core modules:
- Introduction to Theatre Practices
- The ABC of Creative Writing
- Writing and Thinking Creatively
- Creative Devising
- Models and Theories of Performance Practice 1A
- Models and Theories of Performance Practice 1B
- Text into Performance
Core modules:
- Models and Theories of Performance Practice 2a
- Writing Beyond the Page
- Models and Theories of Performance Practice 2b
- Plus one from a list which may include:
- Theatre and Performance Making
- Specialist Practice
- Writing Short Stories
- The Art of Poetry
- Placement Year
Core modules:
- Critical Context: Perspectives on Contemporary Drama, Theatre and Performance
- Creative Writing Project
- Practice and Research 3
- Process and Performance Project
- Final Year Project
- Dissertation
- Experiments in Narrative
- Liberating Poetic Chaos
Drama with Creative Writing BA(Hons)